Remaining at a steady state renders impossible the ability to advance and grow stronger, in either body or career. By Julie Zhou (Growthmaster, Hipmunk) Do you spend your time at the gym on cardio machines? Stop right now and get into the weight room. Push yourself, get stronger and don’t bat an eye at the [...]
Posts Tagged "Risk"
You Can’t Plan When Entrepreneurship Will Fit In
February 19, 2013 – 12:08 pm
We had five amazing women lead teams slated to be in the Spring 2013 class, more than we’ve ever had, then one by one they started to drop or defer like flies. It struck me that the male participants, many of whom had the same conflicts and decisions to make, took the risk and leveraged [...]
Why Women Tech Execs Can And Must Thrive On Risk
January 16, 2013 – 12:13 pm
“No risk, no reward,” goes the old adage. It’s important to stretch one’s boundaries, try something new, perhaps fail, but learn, and move on. By Shellye Archambeau (CEO, MetricStream) The stereotypical image of women as risk avoiders is changing fast. More women are occupying the boardroom, making important strategic decisions, and taking on high-risk responsibilities [...]
Risky Business
June 20, 2012 – 9:00 am
“You must take the risk off the table. Each day, you must take just a bit more, mount it on your back and bear its weight until it just can’t fight you. ntil the risk stops doubting. Until you beat it.” By Nayia Moysidis (Founder, Writer’s Bloq) People discuss startupland as though it is mythical. [...]
7 Steps Toward Finding Your Niche – And Daring To Risk
June 6, 2012 – 10:00 am
How to launch your strategy for taking the right risk. By Wandia Chiuri (Social Media Enterprise Architect, Wandia.info) With the recent Facebook pie-in-your-face IPO still ringing in our ears, it might be wise to dwell on what constitutes taking the “right risk” for you. Like it or not, risk taking will always be an inesapable [...]
Minimizing Risk In Entrepreneurship: Pattern Recognition, Iteration
May 11, 2012 – 6:00 am
Risk minimization leverages pattern recognition, pattern iteration and pattern replication. By Larry Chiang (CEO, Duck9 & Stanford University EIR) I have this theory that risk can be nearly eliminated. I mentor academically smart female engineers to also be street smart. Street smart used to imply shady. In this Women 2.0 blog post, it means compression [...]
The Label Or The Characteristic: CEOs And Marriage (Stereotypes)
March 20, 2012 – 8:00 am
The problem with looking at a demographic label rather than a person’s individual characteristics. By Laura Yecies (CEO, SugarSync) This headline caught my eye last week: “The Marriage Plot: Single CEOs Make for Riskier Investments”. The CNNMoney article summarized a study conducted by two Wharton professors and released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. [...]
The $100,000 Chris Rock Story (Risk, Meet Reward)
January 25, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Ramit Sethi (Author, I Will Teach You To Be Rich) Telling a story about Chris Rock helped me earn over $100,000 in scholarship money to attend college. During senior year of high school, my parents — immigrants who raised four kids and didn’t have money to send us to college — encouraged us to [...]
How To Change Your Perception Of Risk
December 26, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Rajashree Karwa (Co-Founder, Velvet Aroma) It’s that time of the year again. Yes, it’s time to come up with New Year’s resolutions! As a fellow entrepreneurial woman I would like to suggest one, that if truly embraced, should take your career to new heights. Make a small shift in the way you perceive risk. [...]
Why Women Have To Work Harder To Build Successful Startups
December 7, 2011 – 11:30 am
By Julia Hu (Founder & CEO, LARK) Much of business involves emotionally connecting with your audience. That’s why women build companies that emotionally connect with consumers: Much of consumerism is driven by women. But the “audience” when you’re raising a round of VC funding is, well, men. Women can’t possibly emotionally connect with men as [...]
